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Blower-Door Test Confirms High-Performance-Home Status
The air-sealing efforts pay off with Passive House–level airtightness
Sheltered From View
A warped timber-frame wall creates privacy and helps to meet setback requirements in a tight neighborhood.
How to Choose the Right Exterior Door
Choose muntins, glazing, sidelites, and decorative patterns to match the style of your home when buying a new front door.
Abstract Effect
With a complete modern remodel, this bold red house in Portland, Oregon, was reinvented without altering its original form.
Good Fences Make . . .
A classic fence in Maine
Revolutionary Remodel
Architect Robert Gurney reshapes history at 308 Mulberry Street.
Bungalow Rebirth: 2 Historic Texas Homes Reimagined
A design/build firm modernizes two Austin bungalows with creative sensitivity to their historic neighborhoods.
Is Using Closed-Cell Foam Worth the Trade-Offs?
This insulation material is popular for its high R-value and good air-sealing and vapor-blocking properties, but cost, health, and environmental concerns cause some builders to have second thoughts.
Plan for Wood Movement in Construction Projects
Learn to anticipate and accommodate shrinking, swelling, twisting, and buckling when working with this ubiquitous building material.
A Desk Area Changes with its Owner
Designing for a pre-teens room provides its own specific challenges. This desk area was set up to grow with the owners changing needs. Originally the shelf height was set up…

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